# HG changeset patch # User wenzelm # Date 881946659 -3600 # Node ID 384108c6e2099358c8b85da71861aa211623dec6 # Parent e30bc68338c826c6f6d32a34a273a3746b664dca prepared for Isabelle98; diff -r e30bc68338c8 -r 384108c6e209 README.html --- a/README.html Fri Dec 12 17:51:45 1997 +0100 +++ b/README.html Fri Dec 12 18:10:59 1997 +0100 @@ -13,18 +13,17 @@

Version information

-This is Isabelle-94 revision 8 as of May -1997. Basically, it should be backwards compatible to earlier -Isabelle-94 releases. Older versions (like Isabelle-93) are quite -different, though. See also the NEWS file in the distribution -for a more detailed list of new features and changes. +This is Isabelle98 as of January 1998. Compared to +the Isabelle94 line it introduces many new features, but also some +imcompatibilities. See the NEWS file in the distribution for +more details.

System requirements

Isabelle requires a real Unix box with sufficient resources. Fun starts at about 32MB of memory (somewhat depending on your ML system), -several tens of MB disk space and with a relatively fast CPU. +with several tens of MB disk space and a relatively fast CPU.

@@ -44,7 +43,8 @@

  • Poly/ML versions 2.x and 3.1 on Suns.
  • SML/NJ 0.93 on Suns and SGIs. There seem to be several problems with Linux and HP-UX. -
  • SML/NJ 1.09.27 or later on Suns, Linux, etc. +
  • SML/NJ versions 109.27 to 109.33 on Suns, Linux, etc. +
  • SML/NJ 110 on Suns, Linux, etc.

    @@ -58,15 +58,12 @@ SML/NJ needs lots of store and disk space, but it is free. -The last official release is 0.93. Recent working versions may be -better suited, under normal circumstances. Beware of the many -incompatibilities among SML/NJ versions! From the 1.09.x family, we -now only support 1.09.27, or later. An unofficial pre-built binary -distribution of at least SML/NJ 1.09.27 for Linux is also available. -If you have to re-build SML/NJ 1.09.x yourself from the sources, just -comment out all targets except "sml" (cf. the installation -instructions of the SML/NJ distribution). +The current official release is 110. We also still support the old +0.93 release and working versions 109.27 to 109.33. Support for the +109 line of SML/NJ will be dropped next time! There is an unofficial +pre-built binary distribution of SML/NJ +110 for Linux.

    Installation